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Re: Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Castro in 'gesture of hope'

Originally Posted by Ad_Captandum

I'm mentioning Bush's actions, because implicit in the OP was that Obama was somehow kowtowing to an untrustworthy foreign leader, probably because he's an evil socialist who hates America. I'm just pointing out that Bush did the same, as did Clinton before him, and Bush Sr before him, all the way back to, you know, George Washington, because that's what leaders DO.

I do have an opinion of what Obama did: Good on him, he didn't act like an international level dickbag, and he's working to mend a broken relationship from an era two decades past.

Maybe you should move on from the 'implicit' stuff into what is actually being said.

Like many I was at first against Snowden but am now realizing he may have made a major contribution to the continuation and maintenance of US rights and freedoms.

Yes true. And even within the Democratic Party there has been acknowledgement that the material that Snowden has released hasn't threatened national security or given any terrorists a leg up. What it has done is exposed wrong doing on the part of the NSA, embarrassed them and put the agency in a defensive and damage control mode. And hopefully everyone concerned will help in their tiny or huge way, depending on who they are and what their access, power, influence etc. is, continue to put pressure (Jim Sensenbrenner) on those who alone have both the authority and means to align the NSA with the constitution, and not with corporate or whatever other interests there may be for having veered from that in the first place.